Max usable disk space

[Dave Jones]

On Wed, Dec 28, 2005 at 02:25:12PM -0500, Mark Haney wrote:
 > Jason Ragsdale wrote:
 > 
 > >All,
 > > I am looking to build a NSF server starting with:
 > >4 x 300GB drives RAID5, and adding 4 more 500GB RAID5 drives later. 
 > >Is  there a max filesystem size limit with fedora core 4? Or are there 
 > >any  other options that may cause me issues later down the road? 
 > >Thanks in  advance.
 > >-Jason
 > >
 > I just found out that fdisk doesn't like raw devices > 2TB.  Don't know 
 > of a way around that limitation, but that's the only one I can think of.

That's a limitation of DOS style partition tables. Use a GPT partition
layout, and it should work.  You may have to use parted rather than
fdisk to create them though.

		Dave